Bolivar Flats Feathered Darlings

This Thanksgiving week was spent as a family along the Texas Gulf Coast, on the Bolivar Peninsula to be more specific. It’s become a favorite spot (as you can see here, here, and here!) for not only the wide open semi-clean beaches but also for the variety of shorebirds.

These are a just a few faces representing the splendor of Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary and the 17th Street Jetty (which runs along it). We did no counting for eBird not only because of the numbers (counts in the thousands are intimidating!) but because it’s difficult to juggle a list AND a camera AND a field lens AND a husband who is more intent upon soaking it all in.

So that’s what we did.

All photos are straight from the Canon/Tamron combo as I saw them through the viewfinder — untouched, uncropped — with the lens fully extended at 600mm zoom. Who has time for post-processing? (I don’t.)